The Effect of Self-Control Training on Perceived Bullying and Job Performance of Female Employees at the Organization of Physical Education

The present study was conducted aiming to investigate the effect of self-control training on perceived bullying and job performance of female employees at the organization of physical education. It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest and control group design. The statistical population included all women working at the organization of physical education in the province of Isfahan who were working in the autumn of 2018. 30 female employees at the organization of physical education in the province of Isfahan were selected through non-random purposive sampling method and randomly replaced into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received eight ninety-minute sessions of self-control training during two months while the control group didn’t receive such interventions. The applied questionnaires included perceived organizational bullying (researcher-made) questionnaire and job performance questionnaire (Hersi and Goldsmith, 1990). The data from the study were analyzed through ANCOVA method. The result showed that self-control training has significantly influenced perceived bullying and job performance of female employees at the organization of physical education (p<0.0001). The statistical effect size of self-control training on perceived bullying and job performance of female employees at the organization of physical education was 67% and 56% respectively. According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that teaching self-control employing techniques such as self-expression skills, coping stress methods and improving inter-personal relationships can be used as an efficient method to increase job performance and decrease perceived bullying of female employees at the organization of physical Education.